Officers of the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) questioned the two journalists, editors of Sinhalese dailies, recently in an attempt to force them to reveal their sources for articles on sensitive subjects, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). The editor of one of the newspapers, who asked not to be named, said members of the CCD went to his newspaper’s headquarters on the morning of June...
Two Al Jazeera journalists, Qais Azimy and Hameedullah Shah, who had been detained since June 14, have been relased, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). The two journalists were released on June 16. Their colleagues said they spent part of the time chained to a chair and were prevented from sleeping by the National Directorate of Security officials who were holding them. Asked about...
Intelligence officials at the National Directorate of Security (NDS) in Kabul detained two Afghan journalists detained on Sunday, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Qais Azimy and Hameedullah Shah, producers for Al-Jazeera, were detained separately on Sunday, two days before the country's presidential election campaigns are set to begin, according to according to an Al...
Pakistan's security forces allegedly opened fire on June 9 on members of a media team of AVT Khyber, a Pashto TV channel, and a photographer of the English daily newspaper Dawn, resulting in injuries to a cameraperson and a driver, the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) has reported. The media team was on its way to cover events in Upper Dir, a volatile district of North West Frontier Province (NWFP)...
Three journalists were injured when they were assaulted by workers of the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT), the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). The journalists were assaulted while covering an IJT protest rally on June 8 in capital Islamabad, the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) has reported. The injured included Syed Mehdi, photojournalist for the daily the Nation, Muhammad Asim, photojournalist...
Afghan authorities failed to properly investigate the murder of Abdul Samad Rohani, the BBC World Service’s correspondent in the southern province of Helmand, whose body was found one year ago. His family and colleagues are still pressing for the truth about his death, especially for the identity of those who ordered it. “We will not give up demanding justice for journalists murdered in
The police in Mindoro Occidental province should immediately investigate the shooting murder of Philippine radio commentator Crispin Perez for possible links to his reporting, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has demanded. An unidentified attacker stabbed and fatally shot Perez on Tuesday in San Jose in the central Philippines, according to local and international news reports. The...
Radio journalist Zakia Zaki's murder two years ago is still unpunished and her husband is sure that the lack of progress with the investigation is almost certainly due to the influence of the murder's masterminds. The director of Sada-e-Solh (Peace Radio), Zaki was gunned down in her home in Jabalussaraj, in the northern province of Parwan, on June 6, 2007. "We have not forgotten Zaki, who was an
Journalist Noorajan Bahir of independent radio Killid was released from a military base near the eastern town of Khost shortly before noon (local time) on June 4, two days after he was arrested by coalition forces and members of the Afghan military. The 28-year-old journalist, who is married, has worked for the independent radio station since 2004. "I was interrogated by American soldiers...
North Korea's top court convicted two American journalists and sentenced them to 12 years in a prison Monday, intensifying the communist nation's confrontation with the United States. The sentencing came amid soaring tensions fueled by the North's latest nuclear and missile tests. The Central Court tried American TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee and confirmed their unspecified "grave crime"...
